Installing PHPMyAdmin on your Account

If you have a web designer and they are designing your website with a content management system (CMS), the designer may need access to the databases. Until now, the easiest solution was to provide them with the cPanel username and password to access PHPMyAdmin. For security purposes, this may not be the best solution since this would allow the third party complete access to your cPanel account, including email, add-on domains, and other files/ databases you may have.

You can install PHPMyAdmin on your account in a few easy steps that will eliminate the need to provide your designer with cPanel access.

Once you have downloaded the zip file, you will need to upload the file via an FTP program or cPanel using File Manager. (If you do not have an FTP client, we recommend using FileZilla a free FTP client).

Once in File Manager, upload the package you downloaded to the public_html folder.

After you have successfully uploaded the file you will need to uncompress it. To uncompress the file, right-click the highlighted file and select extract.

Once the file is extracted, you will notice there is a file folder created. You now need to create a folder in the new folder called "config"

*** Please Note: If using SuPHP, then have to make sure that .htaccess files do not have PHP settings.

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You want to update this article to reflect that for shared hosting environments you can just (re)install myPHPadmin directly to the domain of your choosing from the new applications module in cPanel.

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PS - It might be good to also instruct Wordpress users to install it in a new folder named "phpmyadmin" as you'll get an error if you try to install it in the same folder where a Wordpress installation exists. Some may accidentally choose overwrite files, which could be very problematic.

Sorry you're having problems with the config folder. Unfortunately, it's difficult for us to determine what you've done in the process unless you have an account we can access. Can your provide a URL for the site? Also, can you describe how you are creating the new folder or directory? It would help us to understand why you say the folder is not being seen by phpMyAdmin. Are you able to see the contents of the folder?